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| This new release of Ubuntu is the most user friendly and well supported Linux
| distribution I've ever used. Most hardware seems to just work out of the box
| with the help of the their restricted driver manager. The system is very
| configurable and well integrated. The inclusion of Compiz is a welcome
| enhancement and other new features such as Tracker for desktop search
| technology take the system up a whole new notch of usability. It's not there
| yet, of course, but for me this release certainly improves on the firm base
| set down by previous releases. My MacBook has never been happier, except for
| maybe the battery which is sure to get a bigger work out with all these fancy
| new features.
|
| Ubuntu - 9 "Smarties" out of 10.
| Kubuntu - 8.5 "Smarties" out of 10.
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| The Hardy Heron Roadmap has over 130 new ideas that have been proposed thus
| far. Â*Iâ€™ve examined each one of these ideas in detail, threw out the ones
| that werenâ€™t interesting to me, wrote an explanation for each, and sorted the
| list into three categories: Â* Â*
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| Â* Â*1. User Experience,
| Â* Â*2. Networking and Security,
| Â* Â*3. Support
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| According to the 2007 DesktopLinux.com survey, Ubuntu is the distribution of
| choice for 30% of GNU/Linux users. The exact figure is questionable, but
| Ubuntu's dominance is not. For an increasing number of people, Ubuntu is
| GNU/Linux. Yet, looking at the pre-releases of Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10, I
| found myself becoming disturbed by the degree to which this popularity has
| translated into uncritical acceptance.
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| More â€“ if you know more than somebody, as Ubuntuâ€™s developers obviously do,
| you have an obligation to give them the opportunity. To do otherwise is to
| dismiss the average person as willfully ignorant. Possibly, Iâ€™m naive, but
| Iâ€™m not quite ready to regard others that way.
|
| Anyway, which came first: operating systems like Windows that prevent people
| from learning about their computers, or users who were fixated on
| accomplishing specific tasks. If computer users are task-oriented, at least
| some of the time, the reason could be that theyâ€™re conditioned to be so.
| Perhaps theyâ€™ve learned from Windows that prying into the inner workings of
| their computer is awkward and difficult. We donâ€™t really know how many users
| will want to learn more, given the opportunity.
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